The Dillon tribune., 1887-11-04
MONTANA CONDENSED.
From Our Territorial Exchanges, and
Other Sources.


Sneak thieves are thick and slick up at
Butte.
The postotfice at Shawmut, in Meagher
county, has been discontinued.
Incendary fires burned a large amount Of
hay in Choteau county last week.
1t cost Fergus county $4,c+,.9o for hold.
ing the late term OF District Court.
Young Bell, Of Stevensville, shot him.
self seriously while hunting last week.
The J. f. Richards Otl and Paint Co. has
been organized at Butte. Capital, $:oun.
The amount Of wool shipped this year
from Billings, on the Northern Pacific, was
1,37',l,l pounds.
There are 3oS tax payers in Lewis and
Clarke county who pay over $,oo in taxes
on their property.
John Mcguire and John Ming will be ac-
tive rivals in the theatrical busing at Hell.
ena during the winter.
| Gus Seiderberg, Sweae, was found
dead in Willis's chop house at Great Falls.
Heart disease and whisky.
The official returns for Washington Ter
ritory place the taxable wealth at $ss,6S.s,.
500, and the increase over last year is only
| 100000.
Sam Hutchinson, a Benton tough, was
shot in the leg Saturday night, at that city,
by officer Harry Stamford. He was re-
sisting arrest.
The steamer Missouri arrived ut Fn".
Benton on Oct. 9th. She had difficulty
in getting up the river with her cargo, ow-
ing to low water.
The most direct route to the new Castle
Mountain mining district is via White Sui.
phur Springs. Coaches connect with all
passengers trains at Townsend
There are five commercial firms in Ben.
ton rated at million. Their credit is a l
for that amount. No other town in this
country can compare with it in this res
pect.
Hogan is the name of Il new Nlontana
postofiice established on the route from
y Dearborn to Augusta-!o miles from Dear
. born and IS from Augusta with Jos. E,n
S body as post'nastcr
t The Manitoba railway has issued cir
t cular TO agents forbidding them TO receive
liquor for shipment to Wallace and Mani
$ tou, Dakota; Lanark and Toledo, Mon
!. tana, and to all points within the lndiar
), reservation.
!. Governor Leslie has pardoned John Ed
mundson out Of the Penitentiary. Ed
' mundson was one OF the notorious Ed
s mundson gang of horse thieves and cattl
j. killers. There was strong protest asains
n pardoning him made by stock men win
had spent money to secure his conviction
i, a Custer county shoemaker, na,ne
g Chas. Schultzc, married ~ Montana woman
without getting divorce from affinity NJ
/, who is raising several OF his children
Divorces are cheap in Montana, and SO tn
fellow with foreign name should be ser
J. 10 the Pen for not buying divorce, If fc
" no other reason.
! On Saturday evening, about 5 o'clocl
n two miners named Timothy Lynch an
y Daniel O'l}rien, lost their lives by giar
powder explosion in the st. Lawrence min
'e at Butte The men were engaged in prt
IS curing giant powder stored in the zoo tot
r level of the mine when, by some inexpl
It cable means, the fifty pounds OF powdt
r. kept at that point for distribution alon
that level iynitci ana exploded with tcrrif
!. force
H. Bozeman tenvir: An object OF II
is markablc curiosity is on exhibition at Ge'
J., Ho(l.nans Hermitage. 1t is nothing MOI
+. than properly stuffed and mounted ca
skin, but is rcmarkabl from the fact th
the animal had two perfectly formed leae
~ including eyes, ears, mouth, etc This r.
y markablc freak OF nature was produced
- the herd of Thos. Garlick, OF Cottonwoo
- Gallatin county. and cost him the life Of
valuable COW.
i WOnl:ln'S Discovery.